New Year's Goals - February Progress
Ever wonder why you aren't achieving your goals? I do it all the time. I beat myself up over it and figuratively pound my head against the wall.
What I Got Accomplished...
Pretty much a lot of nothing. I didn't even spend a lot of time here in the community. This month has seen me sleeping in and getting up just in time to shower and go to work. I didn't get up early as I did last month. Just sort of in a funk all month.
I wasn't in the mood to work on anything. My bills are piling up and it seems just so overwhelming to even think straight on any of my goals I set for myself.
It just seems that everything is rapidly unraveling before my eyes. Mine and my wife's cars are old and little by little there seems like something is going wrong and there is no money to pay for all the repairs that are needed.
I don't expect anyone to help me to get out of this boat, but just stating what I felt... up until a few days ago.
What Happened?
Well, I realized that I have to get to work... not at work at my J O B... but here or should I say my website. Oh and a post by Heidi helped a lot too.
I have another post that I just read before typing this as well. It was a post about Vegas by J-KWest, here it is:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/j-kwest/blog/las-vegas-2020-an-epic-adventure-i-cant-wait-to-do-again
My job is my job, but my business is my business and it is up to me to make it move in whatever direction I choose to take it. I have a little story to tell that sort of helps me a little.
A Short Story...
A couple of weeks ago, my wife's laptop went belly up. I was getting an error message on the screen whenever she tried to boot it up. "Hard Drive - not installed" I took the bottom off and looked at the ribbon cable and even disconnected it. I reconnected it and reinstalled the battery. Put the bottom back on expecting it to work. Nope.
Well, I took it to the local computer repair shop and let them see what they can do for me. I was seriously expecting a $200 bill when it was all said and done. I received a phone call from them telling me that it was working and all the did was tightened a screw holding the N2 in place.
Hmmmph... only $35 for the repair... I was ecstatic! I went in to get it and pay for the repair. Well, while there the manager of the shop and I were talking about the need for the laptop because my wife and I were sharing mine in the meantime. One more reason I didn't get much done on my website.
Oh yeah, my conversation... I mentioned WA and my website and she asked if I build websites. Now, I have only built mine and my wife's for her pet-sitting and she was interested in just that. She informed me that she gets people coming in asking if they do web design and always have to turn people away.
She asked me if I would like her to refer some of them to me. I told her I was fairly new at the web design thing and wasn't sure how well I could do, but that I would be willing to give it a try. So, now I have a web design website of my own and will now be promoting that business for some local businesses.
It'll help bring in a bit of immediate income for me and has helped to lift me out of this funk about the bills.
My MMO niche...
What will it mean for that... nothing. I will continue with it as I have been. I will refocus my goals into smaller chunks and continue as I have been anyway. Oh, and after reading Grace's (Littlemama, to most of us here) post about what it will take to get to Vegas...well. At the pace I am going now it'll take me 15 years to get there.
I can't let that happen, so I definitely need to move more in that direction as well as work with a web design business. I just have to work on balancing my time. Much more important for me to be consistent in what I am doing here.
As we all know... consistent work is what it takes to be successful in our businesses.
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Thanks for reading.
I wish you all the best!
Bob
It is a pity if you do not make it to Las Vegas, but is that really true? Personally I do not think so as Las Vegas will be at the same spot in a couple of years.
What I do like is the story of the shop asking you if you can make websites. Now there you have a great opportunity to apply what you have learned here, Vegas can wait a little.
Greetings from the south of Spain,
Taetske
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I also have no intention of letting it take that long. But, as you said if the income potential of my web design side of the business takes off like I hope it does. I won't be as concerned about Vegas, but it sure would be nice to get there with the sales here at WA.
It will still be a goal of mine.
I wish you well...
Bob
(P.S. Did you know you can host websites here for clients and then charge them a hosting fee and maintenance fee, which will pay for your membership? Just an idea...)
I wanted to talk to you a minute about your bills. Have you ever listened to Dave Ramsey? I love his clips on YouTube from his podcast. I really recommend listening to this guy.
My husband and I were struggling with our bills even though he makes a great income! But what I learned from Dave is that we weren't organized with our money.
I started learning all about doing a budget and it has seriously changed everything for us. Our stress over bills has gone from a 10 out of 10 to non-existent. In fact, I LOVE budgeting. I think it's so much fun. But maybe I'm just weird. lol
Anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there for you. :)
- Christina
I can definitely use that. My issue is that we don't budget and really need to. My wife isn't real big on it and doesn't like it. She says it limits what we can do...but she is so wrong in the way she is looking at it.
I have to work on it with her... she'll come around. I guess I have to get to work on that budget then on my own... LOL!
Oh, and you mentioned hosting websites here for clients and charging hosting and maintenance fees. That was my thought exactly. The maintenance would be a monthly recurring depending on how I contract it.
The hosting fee would be really cheap for what I would charge. Mainly, because I would add either a banner ad or a small widget promoting WA on their website. That would be one of the contractual stipulations for me... it has to be there to keep the hosting fee down for them.
Otherwise, I would charge more... I've got that angle figured out already... LOL!
Thanks for all your advice. It is much needed.
As always, I wish you the best!
Bob
We had plenty of money for what we each wanted to do, we just didn't organize it in the right way and we were overspending where we didn't need to.
Sometimes you do need to add extra income (we did that too as I got a part-time job at the local elementary school. But I also enjoy that.)
I hope your wife comes around. There are a lot of great budgeting videos on YouTube. People make them fun and colorful. And it's inspiring to watch people pay off their debt.
Good luck with everything. I think you're going to kill it this month!
- Christina
I know you feel like you've not accomplished much. I'm sorry about that. BUT - You're still here and it sounds like you're more motivated than ever to make this work!
Like you, I've been extremely inspired by the Vegas posts. I want to make it there to meet all those I look up to in this biz! It would be awesome to meet you there as well!
We've got this, Bob!
Congratulations on the potential prospects also -- that's fantastic news! You're going to have a magnificent March! I can feel it!
Big hugs!
~Heidi
I did the math and 15 years at the rate I'm going now to have 400 review articles on my website...LOL! Stepping it up might get me there in 5 years...LOL! That's hilarious.
Funk is gone now. I am ready to kill it!
Bob
